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AMY GRANT & FRIENDS
An Evening to Celebrate Global Health
Join us at Otter Creek Church for a special evening filled with music, joy, and a celebration of global health initiatives. Grammy award-winning artist Amy Grant will be joined by Charlie Peacock, Steve Taylor, Brandon Heath, and Matt Maher to create an unforgettable experience.
Let's come together to support a great cause and enjoy an evening of inspiration and community.
Location:
Otter Creek Church
409 Franklin Road Brentwood, TN 37027
Date & Time:
Wednesday, June 18 · 7 - 8:30pm CDT. Doors at 6:30pm
Tickets are FREE! Reserve yours now!
MEET THE ARTISTS
AMY GRANT
Amy Grant's career spans more than 40 years and stretches from her roots in gospel into becoming an iconic pop star, songwriter, television personality and philanthropist. With three multi-platinum albums, six platinum albums and four gold albums, her total career album sales have exceeded 30 million and over 1 billion global streams. Grant’s chart success has been consistent throughout her career with six No. 1 hits, 10 Top 40 pop singles, 17 Top 40 Adult Contemporary tracks and multiple Contemporary Christian chart-toppers.
In addition to her six GRAMMY® Awards, Grant has earned 26 GMA Dove Awards (including four Artist of the Year Awards) and has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as the Music City Walk of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Conventional wisdom has it that Grant put Contemporary Christian Music on the map becoming the first Contemporary Christian artist to have a platinum record, the first
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to hit No. 1 on the Pop charts and the first to perform at the GRAMMY® Awards. With that, her legacy as one of the most influential artists of the past four decades is assured. In 2022, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts included Grant as one of their five distinguished Honorees to receive the 45th Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements. Grant continues to actively tour each year playing 70+ solo shows in addition to the annual Christmas At The Ryman residency with Vince Gill which celebrated over 100 headline shows at the Ryman, the first co-headliners to mark this incredible milestone.
In 2024, Grant continued her active touring schedule and treated fans to several catalog re-issues including the long-sought after “Songs From The Loft” album, (originally released in 1993), for the first time on digital formats and an ‘Expanded Anniversary Edition’ of her classic album, “House Of Love” with never before heard tracks and remixes, as well as a newly compiled Christmas Collection with Vince Gill entitled, “When I Think Of Christmas” album.
2025 finds Grant finishing a Spring Tour culminating in a 2-night residency at the Ryman Auditorium over Mother’s Day weekend and is in the studio finishing recording a new album with all-new songs, her first in 12 years with producer Mac McAnally which will release in the fall 2025 in tandem with her fall tour.
STEVE TAYLOR
Steve Taylor earned his “Renaissance Man” stripes (Prism Magazine) from a body of work that’s garnered him multiple Grammy, Billboard, Telly, Addy and Dove awards and nominations. As a recording artist, he’s sold over one million albums, garnered two Grammy nominations for Meltdown and Squint, and made history as the only artist to twice win Billboard Music Video Awards for self-directed music videos. He also fronts the rock band Chagall Guevara, whose latest album Halcyon Days released in 2022.
His resume as a record producer includes the Platinum-certified Sixpence None The Richer and three Gold-certified albums for the Newsboys, with all four albums earning Grammy nominations. His greatest success as a producer came with Sixpence None The Richer’s #1 international smash hit “Kiss Me,” as well as the band’s follow-up hit, “There She Goes.”
His filmmaker resume as a writer/director includes The Second Chance for Sony, and Blue Like Jazz, based on Donald Miller’s New York Times bestselling memoir, which premiered at the South By Southwest Film Festival and won the 2013 Wilbur Award for Best Feature Film, joining past winners The Help, Schindler’s List, and Dead Man Walking. He’s the producer of the feature films Sun Moon for Sony Affirm (filmed in Taiwan); and Sketch starring two-time Emmy winner Tony Hale of Arrested Development and Veep fame, which premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. He’s also producer of the new kids animated series The Dead Sea Squirrels from VeggieTales co-creator Mike Nawrocki.
Steve serves as Filmmaker-In-Residence at Lipscomb University, and lives in Nashville with his wife, the artist D.L. Taylor, and their daughter.
CHARLIE PEACOCK
Charlie Peacock is a multi-genre Billboard chart-topping music producer, composer, and recording artist. He is responsible for developing and producing the Americana-Folk duo The Civil Wars and the bands Switchfoot and The Lone Bellow. Named by Billboard’s Encyclopedia of Record Producers as one of the 500 most important producers in popular music history, Charlie has produced music for film and television, including A Walk to Remember, Chris Cornell’s “Misery Chain” from the soundtrack of 12 Years a Slave, and “Hush,” the title theme to the AMC drama Turn: Washington’s Spies, featuring Joy Williams and The National’s Matt Berninger. His songwriter credits include two multiplatinum evergreen songs, “Every Heartbeat” (Amy Grant) and “In the Light” (DC Talk). In addition to his multiple Grammy wins, Charlie is a (3x) recipient of the Gospel Music Association’s Producer of the Year award. He is the founder/director emeritus of the Commercial Music Program, Lipscomb University. Eerdmans Published his memoir, Roots & Rhythm: A Life in Music, February 4, 2025.
BRANDON HEATH
Brandon Heath is a Grammy-nominated, Dove Award-winning contemporary Christian singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee.
Heath's major-label debut, Don't Get Comfortable (2006), featured the No. 1 hit “I'm Not Who I Was.” His 2008 follow-up, What If We, included the chart-topping single “Give Me Your Eyes,” which earned him two Dove Awards, including Song of the Year, and a Grammy nomination. Over his career, Heath has released multiple successful albums, including Leaving Eden (2011), Blue Mountain (2012), and Faith Hope Love Repeat (2017). In 2022, he achieved another No. 1 hit with “See Me Through It” from his album Enough Already.
Beyond his music, Heath is known for his storytelling and introspective lyrics that explore themes of faith, identity, and grace.
MATT MAHER
Since his major-label debut in 2008, Matt Maher has become a staple in the artistic and songwriting community. A nine-time-GRAMMY® nominee and five-time-GMA Dove Award® winner, he has garnered multiple radio successes, writing and recording songs such as his Top 5 CCLI song “Lord, I Need You” and the chart-topping radio singles “Because He Lives (Amen)” and “Alive & Breathing.” Along with other hits such as “Hold Us Together,” “Christ Is Risen,” “All The People Said Amen,” and “Your Grace Is Enough,” Maher has written or co-written six No. 1 radio singles.
Penning numerous songs recorded by Crowder, Hillsong, Casting Crowns, Chris Tomlin, We Are Messengers, Chris Renzema, Mack Brock, Brandon Lake and Passion, he’s had multiple titles on the CCLI chart’s Top 500 list. With consumption of more than 11 million to date, Maher was awarded RIAA Platinum® certification for “Lord, I Need You” and RIAA Gold® certification for “Hold Us Together,” “All The People Said Amen,” and “Because He Lives (Amen)”. He’s released thirteen studio albums, including his 2017 GRAMMY-nominated album Echoes, and his first Christmas album and children’s book, both titled The Advent of Christmas.
Maher, an official Steinway Artist, has been headlining his own tours and performing at major Catholic and Evangelical events since 2004, including multiple World Youth Day festivals, most recently in Rio De Janeiro presided by Pope Francis. He has also participated in the industry’s biggest tours and festivals, such as Worship Night In America with Chris Tomlin, Compassion Live’s The Road Show and Tobymac’s Hits Deep. Maher has also toured with MercyMe, Chris Tomlin, and Casting Crowns.
Matt Maher is a dad to three kids, husband to his wife Kristin, and they live in Nashville, TN. Matt is a multi-Dove Award nominee and recipient and is a 9x Grammy nominee. He has led worship before more papal events than any other artist and we hope that continues to be the case with our new Pope, Leo XIV.
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SCOTT “SCOOTER” BROWN
After more than four years, two tours overseas with one tour of combat in Iraq as a United States Marine, Scooter Brown traded his guns in for guitars and hit the road.
Scooter Brown Band was formed and began playing mainly in and around Houston, Texas. They have toured North America and opened for some of their biggest influences including Charlie Daniels Band, Travis Tritt, Dwight Yoakam, Lee Roy Parnell and the Marshall Tucker Band. Two members having served in the military, they dedicate significant time doing work for Veteran Support Organizations like CreatiVets, Base Camp 40 - Warriors in the Wild, Lone Survivor Foundation, and the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation.
For the last few years the band has been building a new era in their career. Defined as modern southern rock, the band released American Son in late 2017 and was named in Artists to Watch by Rolling Stone. Spotify supported the title track of the album on playlists “Country Rocks,” “Southern Rock 101” and “Texas Music Now.” Brown was featured as a finalist on USA Network’s “Real Country” in 2018 and was awarded Male Vocalist of the Year at the Third Annual Rocky Mountain Country Music Awards presented by iHeartRadio. In July 2019 the group made their debut on the Grand Ole Opry stage, introduced by fellow road warrior, Opry-member Charlie Daniels. The band has continued a rigorous touring schedule while writing with some of the biggest songwriters in Nashville.
RUSSELL MOORE
Russell Moore is Editor in Chief of Christianity Today. Moore is the author of several books, including Losing Our Religion: An Alter Call for Evangelical America; The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear Without Losing Your Soul, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel and The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home.
An ordained Baptist minister, Moore served previously as President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and, before that, as the chief academic officer and dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also taught theology and ethics.
The Wall Street Journal has called Moore “vigorous, cheerful, and fiercely articulate.” He was named in 2017 to Politico Magazine’s list of top fifty influence-makers in Washington, and has been profiled by such publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and the New Yorker. Moore was a Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics and currently serves on the board of the Becket Law and as a Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum in Washington, D.C. He also hosts the weekly podcast The Russell Moore Show and is a senior commentator of Christianity Today’s weekly news and analysis podcast, The Bulletin.
Russell was President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention from 2013 to 2021. Prior to that role, Moore served as provost and dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he also taught theology and ethics.
A native Mississippian, he and his wife Maria are the parents of five sons. They live in Nashville, where he teaches the Bible regularly at their congregation, Immanuel Church.
JENNY E. DYER, PHD
Jenny Dyer is the Founder of The 2030 Collaborative. She also directs the Faith-Based Coalition for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in partnership with Friends of the Global Fight.
Dyer has taught in the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt School of Medicine, as well as at Vanderbilt’s School of Divinity.
She formerly served as the executive director to Senator-Doctor Bill Frist’s humanitarian organization, Hope Through Healing Hands, in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to that, she served as the National Faith Outreach Director for the DATA Foundation and The ONE Campaign, Bono’s organization.
Dyer has written numerous academic articles and opinion pieces on the intersection of religion and global health. Her books as co-editor include The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World (2019), The Mother & Child Project: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope (2015) and The aWAKE Project: Uniting Against the African AIDS Crisis (2002).
She holds a B.A. in Religion from Samford University (1999), a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School (2001), and a Ph.D. in History and Critical Theories of Religion from Vanderbilt University (2007).
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JOSH GRAVES
Beginning 2009, Dr. Josh Graves has served as preaching and teaching minister for the Otter Creek Church. He loves telling Jesus stories to anyone who will listen. Josh holds a D.Min. from Columbia Seminary where he studied the relationship of postmodernism and Christianity. He has written four books: The Feast: How to Serve Jesus in a Famished World, Heaven on Earth (with C. Seidman), and How Not to Kill a Muslim: A Manifesto of Hope for Christianity and Islam in North America. Recently, Josh released The Simple Secret: Choosing Love in a Culture of Hostility with Cascade Publishers.
Josh's work has been featured on NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Patheos, PBS Religion, Preaching Today, Church Leaders, The Tennessean, Missio Dei, The Contributor, and Christian Standard. Josh is currently helping to lead Pepperdine University's Compelling Preaching Initiative as well as The Gathering for Telemachus Mentoring held each year in Boca Grande, Florida. Previously, Josh taught New Testament courses for Rochester University (2005-2009) and Lipscomb University (2012-2023). Josh is married to Kara – the real theologian in the family. Josh and Kara have three life-giving sons: Lucas, Finn, and Oliver.
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